This is what your Nuetral Safety switch harness plug looks like (before and after) when you have a fried connector and get a new plug housing, new pigtails, all Toyota stuff, and do a nice repair on it...
It's Official, I'm an idiot!
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Ouch! How did you fry it?
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And this is what it looks like when...
You throw the harness over the fender and push the front wheel over the newly repaired plug! CRACK!
Dan, can I get a do over on this ???
You throw the harness over the fender and push the front wheel over the newly repaired plug! CRACK!
Dan, can I get a do over on this ???
Hmm, trying to horn in on my claim? I thought I was the only idiot on this forum and I demand a ruling on that thread title.....
https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=48487&highlight=idiot
DougM
https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=48487&highlight=idiot
DougM
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Doug,
I don't see laying on your back and benchpressing a driveshaft as near as big a goof as waiting a week for a plug, another week for the wires, and two hours of labor down the drain for manually pushing a 6000 pound truck over said repair job!
But if you still want the title, help yourself. I can just call myself a goober, big southern dummy, or any such appropriate title.
I don't see laying on your back and benchpressing a driveshaft as near as big a goof as waiting a week for a plug, another week for the wires, and two hours of labor down the drain for manually pushing a 6000 pound truck over said repair job!
But if you still want the title, help yourself. I can just call myself a goober, big southern dummy, or any such appropriate title.
Grench
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Idiots on Parade!
Since this thread is stupidity in action...
With the help of my
brother in law...
Last weekend I did front Longfield birfs, Longfields axles, bearings, trunions, front diff, rotors, 100 pads, rear bearings, rear diff and figured out why the parking break didn't work. (Another parts order was placed with Dan.)
My brother in law worked on the PS, I worked on the DS.
Today when I went out to grab lunch I noticed that there is 80/90 gear lube weeping out of the DS rear wheel.
So, can I be runner up on the Idiot Parade for this week?
*kick me*
Since this thread is stupidity in action...
With the help of my
brother in law...Last weekend I did front Longfield birfs, Longfields axles, bearings, trunions, front diff, rotors, 100 pads, rear bearings, rear diff and figured out why the parking break didn't work. (Another parts order was placed with Dan.)
My brother in law worked on the PS, I worked on the DS.
Today when I went out to grab lunch I noticed that there is 80/90 gear lube weeping out of the DS rear wheel.
So, can I be runner up on the Idiot Parade for this week?
*kick me*
Heh, I'll join, and I screwed up a job . . .
I pulled the right rear brake caliper to change the pads since I was getting a nasty squeak, but when I pulled the pads and looked a them there was still plenty of material there, so I put them back in and buttoned it all back up. This was part of an oil change/tire rotation/LSPV adjustment that I started late, so I finished at dark-thirty. I had left myself no time for a test drive, but had to quickly clean up and to run to a meeting. You can imagine I was pretty alarmed at the grinding noise from said caliper on first braking . . .
Well, I'd managed to install a brake pad backwards so it was metal-to-metal. Thanks to other commitments for that week, that little oversight left me without my truck for two full days before I had the half-hour or so to tear back into it and fix the brain fart! :whoops:
job . . .I pulled the right rear brake caliper to change the pads since I was getting a nasty squeak, but when I pulled the pads and looked a them there was still plenty of material there, so I put them back in and buttoned it all back up. This was part of an oil change/tire rotation/LSPV adjustment that I started late, so I finished at dark-thirty. I had left myself no time for a test drive, but had to quickly clean up and to run to a meeting. You can imagine I was pretty alarmed at the grinding noise from said caliper on first braking . . .
Well, I'd managed to install a brake pad backwards so it was metal-to-metal.
Thanks to other commitments for that week, that little oversight left me without my truck for two full days before I had the half-hour or so to tear back into it and fix the brain fart! :whoops:
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Welcome all to the DIY stupid moves thread...
To answer a previous question, I had no idea the plug was fried, till I pulled the harness all loose to get my lower intake manifold off for a good cleaning. This was the part of the engine job I feared most till Dan told me he could get the replacement plug.
To answer a previous question, I had no idea the plug was fried, till I pulled the harness all loose to get my lower intake manifold off for a good cleaning. This was the part of the engine job I feared most till Dan told me he could get the replacement plug.
Grench, i hear you on that. I did a rear axle service, next day noticed a little grease coming out around the hub flange (where the axle slides back in)...well, i forgot to put the dang paper gasket back onto that side. duhhh.....
As President Regan once said, "Your youth and inexperience won't be held against you for the title of Biggest Idiot."
I will save mine but to give you a hint... Nobody can be Biggest Idiot unless your screw up involves letting the smoke out.
-B-
I will save mine but to give you a hint... Nobody can be Biggest Idiot unless your screw up involves letting the smoke out.
-B-
So what? You made an impolite noise in a mixed gender venue?
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Spill it wulf! Or are you trying to say you already did?
I'll play.
Romer was nice enough to sell me his air-duct which I swapped out in the near darkness with the help of my 3 year old daughter. Who can guess which part was missing two days later when I checked the oil?
Wingnut on top did not make it back on, dooo
Romer was nice enough to sell me his air-duct which I swapped out in the near darkness with the help of my 3 year old daughter. Who can guess which part was missing two days later when I checked the oil?
Wingnut on top did not make it back on, dooo
So what? You made an impolite noise in a mixed gender venue?
Doug says one of the rules is your idiocy must be 80 related boys and girls, 80 related.
BTW, whatsa "bong"?
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I don't know about the 95 and newer neutral safety switches.. but if its like my 94 I would ditch the toyota connectors and solder on a better water proof one. Mine had problems withwater getting in through where the wires entered the plug from the rear. So I cut both harness and switch side off and got a water proof connection from a newer car in the salvage yard.
Here was the post on that: https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=106789&highlight=switch
Here was the post on that: https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=106789&highlight=switch
bong = water tobacco pipe 
I have not really managed to do anything really stupid with my on my 80 yet, but I have managed to damage myself on several occasions working on it.
At my old job they used to say if you have not broke anything yet you are not working,
we were doing some troubleshooting on a 727 elevator, we were removing and installing the ~70 pound PCA over and over again trying to find and repair play to pass a checkout, I got tired of doing it by hand (read lazy) so I fabbed up a quick harness to use the overhead hoist, worked great until it got caught up and I pressed the up button one to many times, the harness let go and a 1/4 million dollar actuator came crashing down from over my head and and dam dam near broke my leg, fortunately the shop was able to rebuild it.
I also accidentally blew a slide (happens a lot) luckily for mine the bottle was pinned so it just flopped out but did not inflate, still had to be replaced, also drove a flap into an open access panel damaging both,
At my old job they used to say if you have not broke anything yet you are not working,
we were doing some troubleshooting on a 727 elevator, we were removing and installing the ~70 pound PCA over and over again trying to find and repair play to pass a checkout, I got tired of doing it by hand (read lazy) so I fabbed up a quick harness to use the overhead hoist, worked great until it got caught up and I pressed the up button one to many times, the harness let go and a 1/4 million dollar actuator came crashing down from over my head and and dam dam near broke my leg, fortunately the shop was able to rebuild it.
I also accidentally blew a slide (happens a lot) luckily for mine the bottle was pinned so it just flopped out but did not inflate, still had to be replaced, also drove a flap into an open access panel damaging both,
I took my starter apart (including the motor) without first making sure the casing screws were loose...
on top of a hill at Gray Rock in Alabama
I then proceeded to crack the aluminum casing and had no starter to get home.
Now I have a fine Napa starter in there....whew.
on top of a hill at Gray Rock in Alabama
I then proceeded to crack the aluminum casing and had no starter to get home.
Now I have a fine Napa starter in there....whew.
